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Nobody knows. Yeah, I really wasn't sure about that. Exactly what I was going for :up: I am an amateur musician with stage fright, and this is a real ...
January 02, 2023 at 20:49
The difficulty is not that we lack a theory (we have theories, but none are widely accepted or even compelling, afaik), but that we lack a theory of a...
January 02, 2023 at 20:37
I think this went really well. The format got me lazy, It will be even harder dredging up a full short story next time. I didn't miss the competition ...
January 01, 2023 at 00:27
Neatly and efficiently captures a failed life, from beginning to potential terminus. Great line! I was a bit dismayed to see it only got 50% "likes" e...
January 01, 2023 at 00:24
I've read this thought experiment somewhere, I can't place it right now. Amusing and well written. The ironic twist at the end was nice. Sturback! :vo...
December 30, 2022 at 22:51
Right, I lose my godhood once I finish the creation, and become just another mortal bum. Sure I might have an honorary status as the creator, but ulti...
December 30, 2022 at 12:38
I saw it as a metaphor for maturation. As we learn and experience we àcquire edges and corners, complexities, personalities, that were absent as Tabul...
December 30, 2022 at 11:59
The narrator had visited the fountain many times. He is tired, and considered not bathing this time, and so dying a natural death.
December 30, 2022 at 11:34
Awesome review, I'm flattered, thanks!! Yah, not even that original. The idea was that the word limit actually (drastically) affected the traditional ...
December 30, 2022 at 03:51
So Sorry for the late responses! My image was of a burnt out old punk, with a bad ciggy habit. It's always interesting to see how people interpret, as...
December 30, 2022 at 03:32
If that's good enough for you why bother with a thread in the first place? "Yggzavil is effable. Hey, I mentioned it, after all. " You can mention any...
December 08, 2022 at 21:58
The use of "the smell of coffee" is no different than the use of the smell of any of the other overtones in your wheel. There are phenolic compounds c...
December 08, 2022 at 21:55
Coffee is a complex and varied aroma, and can have overtones of other aromas depending on the variety. At the center of the wheel should be the smell ...
December 08, 2022 at 21:12
You keep referring to this trove of evidence without citing it. Your account raises far more questions than it answers. * How do you account for novel...
December 08, 2022 at 18:50
This is confusing to me, maybe in part because the sensation of smelling coffee is not distinguished from the verbal utterance "I smell coffee". There...
December 08, 2022 at 11:11
I think I can speak for everyone in saying that we all *LOVE* your detailed, insightful (and yes, charitable!) feedback. I'm itching to respond to the...
December 07, 2022 at 19:26
They can, but in my experience passionate consumers make the best producers. Drive I guess. I was also a passionate consumer, and I wanted to create, ...
December 07, 2022 at 01:48
Does the title count towards the word limit?
December 07, 2022 at 01:22
Of course language can't transmit sensation any more than it can trees. What it could do (but can't, for sensation) is describe. We don't merely label...
December 04, 2022 at 19:42
I think you are a better reader than all of us, so I'm kind of not buying this! My favorite hobbies are things I thought I could never do.
December 03, 2022 at 22:53
This seems to be a common confusion. Words are labels which are attached to sensation. But this doesn't make sensation any less ineffable. Imagine as ...
December 03, 2022 at 22:00
To my (very limited) understanding phenomenology aspires to what the title suggests, an account of the "phenomenon of perception", of what it is like ...
December 03, 2022 at 21:44
I add two to the traditional five senses for feelings: bodily feelings and mental feelings. Feelings are akin to senses but point inward. Objects inte...
December 03, 2022 at 19:07
Sensations are profoundly ineffable, for a simple reason: we lack words for describing them. At the most elemental level, we can describe the physical...
December 03, 2022 at 11:52
"The Insufferable?"
December 02, 2022 at 23:34
No. These are not the same. Hey, this is easy!
December 02, 2022 at 22:34
You're deflections, one-liners, non-arguments approach ineffability themselves. "Whereof one cannot argue, thereof one must be silent." .
December 02, 2022 at 22:04
And?
December 02, 2022 at 21:51
And so what is missing in order to ride the bike? Just, and only, the learning to ride. But that's not something it makes sense to add to the list eit...
December 02, 2022 at 21:49
Since the end result seems to be some variety of philosophical addlement I personally wouldn't bother.
December 02, 2022 at 02:21
Even if it is true that reflection "changes the phenomenal character of the original phenomenon", both sides of the comparison, immediate experience v...
December 02, 2022 at 01:34
Maybe, but an impression or memory of a phenomenal experience is still similar in kind to that experience. As opposed to when we attempt to translate ...
December 02, 2022 at 00:47
If you're making shit up anyway you may as well throw as much as you can against the wall and hope some of it sticks with some of the people.
December 01, 2022 at 21:08
Has anyone explained how, with Russia's ridiculously overpowered nuclear arsenal, Ukraine in NATO posed even the slightest threat to Russia? In the re...
December 01, 2022 at 20:08
This "ally in all but name" sure didn't seem to buy Ukraine much security in the end, whereas with NATO membership Russia would lose the privilege of ...
December 01, 2022 at 18:57
In my view the Russians successfully used their nukes to provide them an umbrella to conduct their invasion relatively uncontested. The current arrang...
December 01, 2022 at 18:42
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December 01, 2022 at 14:53
Maybe this foolish claim needed to be nipped in the bud back on page one. What's missing is not "the riding of the bike". What's missing is learning, ...
December 01, 2022 at 14:33
By astutely contributing to this thread you have ironically ended it.
December 01, 2022 at 09:17
A truly worthy first entry to my "Favorite Quotations"!
December 01, 2022 at 01:28
Yet from my vantage he understands his own question just fine, it is you that are missing it. How exactly does a description of some knobs you are con...
December 01, 2022 at 00:47
Perhaps @"Banno" could be persuaded to record a performance of "the lick" for us as a fitting capstone to this effing thread. I have a feeling the per...
December 01, 2022 at 00:12
Yeah, that's exactly what I am suggesting. These are all countries that faced an adversary with overwhelming conventional force, nuclear was the last ...
November 30, 2022 at 08:01
Whatever.
November 30, 2022 at 07:35
Like "mitigation" is working out for "war now"? Concession would mean strategic victory for an aggressor who used nuclear weapons to achieve their aim...
November 30, 2022 at 00:14
The difference, KGI, is a knowledge difference. It comprises a vast amount of information, all encoded in Betty's brain, which is the goal and the end...
November 29, 2022 at 21:41
If 3 comes after 2, how is 2 constructed from 3?
November 29, 2022 at 20:33
Suppose Betty, an aspiring guitarist, reads "How to Play the Guitar". She diligently reads and re-reads every word. We agree that Betty does not know ...
November 29, 2022 at 09:57
Your argument is quite clear to me. I feel your frustration reading through the discussion, you might call it "The @"Banno" Experience". Perhaps the m...
November 29, 2022 at 08:32
And yet.. 3 comes after 2.
November 29, 2022 at 08:04